Genes: what is known, and what is sold
A short list on purpose. Most consumer genetic reports attach confident-sounding interpretations to variants whose effect sizes are tiny, population-specific, or not reproducible. These pages cover the small number of genes where the longevity evidence is real, and say plainly how far it goes.
We do not predict disease from a genotype, we do not score your genome, and we do not return interpretations of uploaded raw data.
Genetic results need a genetic counsellor, not a website
A variant result can change how you think about your own health, your children's, and your siblings'. That is a conversation for a qualified genetic counsellor or clinical geneticist, who can take a family history, judge whether a result is even reliable, and explain what it does and does not mean for you. Nothing on these pages is a substitute for that, and nothing here should be used to make a decision about testing, treatment or reproduction on its own.
0 genes covered
No gene pages published yet
Gene pages are published only after a named reviewer has signed off both the evidence summary and the counselling notice.
Why this list is short
Longevity is highly polygenic, and the heritable component is modest — most estimates put it well under a third, with much of the apparent family clustering explained by shared environment. A handful of loci have survived replication across cohorts. Almost everything else on the market is either a well-studied variant with a small effect being described as though it were large, or a variant studied in one ancestry being reported to people of another, where the association may not hold at all.